Biography:
The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem was an Irish folk music singing group that formed in America in 1956. Widely credited with popularising Irish traditional music in the United States, and revitalising it in Ireland (paving the way for an Irish folk boom with groups like The Dubliners and The Wolfe Tones), Tommy Makem left the group in 1969, after which the three brothers (Patrick "Paddy" Clancy, Tom Clancy, and Liam Clancy) became The Clancy Brothers subsequently joined by the fourth Clancy brother (Bobby Clancy).
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Old Maid in the Garret - Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - tab by wompton
[VERSE 1]
G
Now I've often heard it said from me father and me mother
D C G
That going to a wedding is the making of another
G C G
Well, if this be so, then I’ll go without a biddin
D
O kind providence, won't you send me to a wedding
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 2]
G
Well, there's my sister Jean, she's not handsome or good-looking
D C G
Scarcely sixteen and a fella she was courting
G C G
Now she’s twenty-four with a son and a daughter
D
Here am I at forty-five and I've never had an offer
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 3]
G
I can cook and I can sew and I can keep the house right tidy
D C G
Rise up in the morning and get the breakfast ready
G C G
There's nothing in this wide world would make me half so cheery
D
As a wee fat man who would call me his own deary
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 4]
G
So come landsman or come pinsman, come tinker or come tailor
D C G
Come fiddler or come dancer, come ploughboy or come sailor
G C G
Come rich man, come poor man, come fool or come witty
D
Come any man at all that will marry me for pity
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 5]
G
Well now I'm away home for nobody's heeding
D C G
Nobody's heeding and to poor Annie’s pleading
G C G
I'll go away home to my own bitty garret
D
If I can't get a man, then I'll have to get a parrot
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 1]
G
Now I've often heard it said from me father and me mother
D C G
That going to a wedding is the making of another
G C G
Well, if this be so, then I’ll go without a biddin
D
O kind providence, won't you send me to a wedding
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 2]
G
Well, there's my sister Jean, she's not handsome or good-looking
D C G
Scarcely sixteen and a fella she was courting
G C G
Now she’s twenty-four with a son and a daughter
D
Here am I at forty-five and I've never had an offer
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 3]
G
I can cook and I can sew and I can keep the house right tidy
D C G
Rise up in the morning and get the breakfast ready
G C G
There's nothing in this wide world would make me half so cheery
D
As a wee fat man who would call me his own deary
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 4]
G
So come landsman or come pinsman, come tinker or come tailor
D C G
Come fiddler or come dancer, come ploughboy or come sailor
G C G
Come rich man, come poor man, come fool or come witty
D
Come any man at all that will marry me for pity
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
[VERSE 5]
G
Well now I'm away home for nobody's heeding
D C G
Nobody's heeding and to poor Annie’s pleading
G C G
I'll go away home to my own bitty garret
D
If I can't get a man, then I'll have to get a parrot
[CHORUS]
G C G C
And its O dear me, how would it be,
G D G
if I die an old maid in a garret
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